Memories
The memories of John
All came back to me
Just last night when I was having tea
A childhood trust
As sweet as can be
So very young
His love was my key.
My parents where angry
But I didn’t care
I defied them all
And kept seeing him there.
I hid him downstairs
With no-one around
I believed all he told me
Why wouldn’t I have?
My parents and siblings
They all cut me out
Wouldn’t talk to me
I wanted to shout!!
They wanted John out,
Right out of my life
What they didn’t know
In my lonely plight
I needed him then
More than ever before
To fill that dark hole
That they didn’t explore
My friends thought him too old
When they did meet
But I didn’t care
I wanted to be
But then came a time
When all of that changed
His stories became lies
And nothing was the same
The cops came told me
Of crimes in the past
A murder committed
His girlfriend on ice
I wanted it over
But then came the threats
My life he endangered
With talk of my death
I was so terribly frightened
I was only thirteen
I had so much going on
He was thirty three.
He pleaded and begged me
And threatened me some more
But it was over I knew
The trust was no more.
My parents they hid me
Twelve months as I speak
I worked as a nanny
To pay for my keep.
I look back there now
And wonder at me
Did I really do that
I’m meek as can be
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